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Which body system triggers an allergic reaction to a medication -

ANSWER ✔✔Immune


Which term is an alternate for biotransformation of a drug - ANSWER

✔✔Metabolism


Which term is attributed to a condition in which drugs are increasingly

ineffective - ANSWER ✔✔Tolerance


Which animal is the other main source of natural insulin besides human?

- ANSWER ✔✔Pig

,Which percentage would be the bioavailability of atropine administration

intravenously to a patient with cardiac dysrhythmia? - ANSWER

✔✔100%


Which route of administration will cause a drug to be altered by the first

pass effect? - ANSWER ✔✔Oral


Drug half life is defined as the amount of time required for 50% of a drug

to do which response? - ANSWER ✔✔Be eliminated by the body


A nurse is educating a patient who is prescribed warfarin to avoid taking

aspirin and explains that taking both drugs together may cause

excessive bleeding. Which phenomenon is the nurse teaching about? -

ANSWER ✔✔Additive


Which route of drug administration decreases the likelihood of systemic

drug effects? - ANSWER ✔✔Topical


Which type of pharmacotherapeutics is needed to sustain life and treat

disease? - ANSWER ✔✔Acute


Pharmacokinetics involves the study of which factor? - ANSWER

✔✔Distribution rates among various body compartments.

,Which type of therapy has been prescribed when a patient is prescribed

an oral antidiabetic drug? - ANSWER ✔✔Maintenance


Which phenomenon is characteristic of highly protein bound drugs? -

ANSWER ✔✔The risk of drug-drug interactions is increased.


Which enhanced therapeutic effects describes combination therapy of

HCTZ and lisinopril? - ANSWER ✔✔Synergistic


Which condition interferes with the optimum therapeutic effect of a drug

given by the oral route? - ANSWER ✔✔Resection of the small

intestine

Which route of administration would be ideal for a patient with acute

angina like chest pain who is to receive nitroglycerin? - ANSWER

✔✔Sublingual


Drugs exert their actions on the body by performing which action? -

ANSWER ✔✔Interacting with receptors


Altering metabolic chemical process

Inhibiting the action of a specific enzyme




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, A patient diagnosed with thyroid cancer undergoes a thyroidectomy and

is prescribed 75mcg of levothyroxine sodium. Which type of therapy has

the patient been prescribed? - ANSWER ✔✔Supplemental


Which types of cells are destroyed as a result of an idiosyncratic

reaction in a patient with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD)

deficiency with certain medications? - ANSWER ✔✔Red Blood Cells


If a drug has a high first pass effect, which statement about the drug is

appropriate? - ANSWER ✔✔Formation of inactive metabolites is high

in the liver.

Which drug formulation will have the fastest onset of action for oral drug

available in various formulations? - ANSWER ✔✔Oral soluble wafer


Which mechanism of action is being described when an antibiotic drug

causes the destruction of bacterial cell walls? - ANSWER

✔✔Nonselective interaction


Which process is being described when a drug is followed from oral

absorption through to finding traces of the drug in the urine? -

ANSWER ✔✔Pharmacokinetics

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